2. Choose a topic you want to write about. Make a topic web. Practice what you want to say. Tell your story out loud before you start writing. Write your rough draft.

3. Choose a topic. Make a topic web. Birthday Party Who came to the party? Where was the party? What did you do? When was your party ? How did you feel?

4. Name ___________________________________________________ Date ___________________________________________ Topic Web Who?What? Where? When?Why? How? Topic

5. Write your rough draft from your topic web. Write at least 1 complete sentence for each oval. Make sure your story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is your sloppy copy, so don’t worry about mistakes.

6. Sign up for a conference. Revise your story. Use your checklist for ideas to make it better. Edit your story. Use your checklist to find mistakes.

7. Does your story have a beginning, middle, end? Does your story have interesting words? Revising Checklist Does your story stick to the topic? Make your story even better.

8. Does every sentence begin with a capital? Does every sentence end with punctuation? Editing Checklist Do your sentences make sense? Make your story easy to read.

9. DateNameTitle of Story Topic Web Revisin g Checkli st Editing Checkli st

10. Start a new writing project! Writer’s Workshop is never done. Publish your story. Share your finished story.